“I have run into too many travel mishaps to count – from getting deathly sick, stuck in a bamboo hut on a remote island off the coast of Vietnam to less threatening events like showing up at my hotel and them not having my reservation. I realized that many of my friends and colleagues had their own travel “war stories” too, and in each one they did not have anything or anyone to truly rely on for help. In most of these situations you’re pretty much on your own.”